Updates

Daily bug fixes and changes shipped to Papermache.

June 24, 2026

Add public Updates page with daily changelog

June 23, 2026

Fix messages inbox for missing contacts
Hide professor score for ungraded paper profiles
Fix promoted paper uploads showing in search

June 22, 2026

chore: normalize lint line endings
chore: enforce LF line endings for Ruby files
fix: update net-imap to 0.6.4.1

June 6, 2026

Notify on organic registrations

June 4, 2026

Hide unclaimed Explore results and add type toggle
Hide abstract-sourced profiles from public surfaces

May 31, 2026

fix: pin chromadb below vulnerable 1.x line

May 28, 2026

Update CarrierWave security pin
Harden Rails deploy workflow restarts
Optimize paper rankings and refresh CI security pins
Import Aristotle peer recommendation scoring

May 25, 2026

Fix abstract import lint issues

May 24, 2026

Import abstract book profiles and recommendations

May 5, 2026

Center paper interaction reader

May 4, 2026

Keep Explore card text contained
Reconcile HSURV sample account emails

May 3, 2026

Fix public paper search ordering
Show curated HSURV imports in explore
Fix Rails security advisories

April 14, 2026

Restore homepage hero wording

April 12, 2026

Add organic explore filters and traffic dashboard

April 10, 2026

Fix account rubocop blockers
Add analytics funnel tracking and dashboard

April 8, 2026

Add faculty outreach dedicated mailer and pipeline

April 6, 2026

Fix sass-rails min() parsing
Update layout scaling and invitation message

April 4, 2026

Final SCSS layout
Optimize homepage layout scaling to prevent scroll
Homepage viewport fit, footer cleanup, search improvements, and test coverage
Guard homepage hero layout (#41)
Realign homepage hero layout (#40)
Fix homepage viewport fill sizing (#39)
Fix confirmed account sign-in recovery flow
Restore larger homepage hero layout
Normalize invite auth render formatting
Fix invitation response lint formatting
Tighten preregister peer access flow
Allow default notifications sender alias
Set mailer sender in CI smoke tests
Validate allowed mailer sender
Restore earlier homepage spacing

April 3, 2026

Restore previous homepage layout
Point homepage paper teaser to paper 10
Fix homepage scaling Sass compatibility
Refine homepage proportional scaling
Improve homepage readability at 100 percent scale
Rename navbar Explore button
Increase homepage typography
Update homepage copy expectation
Refresh homepage mockup headline
Fit homepage footer within viewport

April 2, 2026

Simplify homepage hero sizing for SassC
Escape homepage responsive CSS math
Fit homepage hero within viewport
Hide paper interaction ad placeholders
Fail fast on missing production mailer config

April 1, 2026

Resolve final Papercut lint issue
Fix Papercut CI regressions
Add Papercut error handling and repair flow
Restore grid layout for public search results
Refine search tables and hero paper layout
Fix public search page test assertion
Refresh paper previews and search layout
Harden staging service restart flow
Fix staging deploy branch fetch auth
Fix search controller RuboCop lint
Revamp public discovery and paper browsing

March 31, 2026

Refactor PostgreSQL triggers, harden chatbot payload limits, and streamline views

March 26, 2026

Fix CI regressions in account and activity feed
Refine profile, messaging, and registration flows
Improve paper highlight selection behavior
chore: refresh root ruby lockfile
Remove vestigial pink form panels
Trim upload copy and footer promos
Remove legacy portfolio placeholders

March 25, 2026

Make paper interaction CSS SassC-safe
Refine paper interaction navigation and ads
Trim feed redirect test coverage
Route sign-in to profile activity feed
Link homepage paper mockup
Tighten homepage hero copy
Simplify guest homepage navigation
Keep preregistration actions in guest navbar
Remove dead standalone chatbot shell
Hide footer on home hero
Move study chat into paper highlights
chore: refresh root ruby lockfile
Center the paper lane and tune highlights

March 24, 2026

Soften paper highlight opacity
Brand the PDF loader and speed first paint
Brighten paper interaction highlights
Flatten viewer scroll and sharpen highlights
Keep paper interaction CSS compatible with SassC
Refine paper viewer layout and asset citation copy
Allow PDF.js blob images in production
Retry SVG PDF.js render when image assets lag

March 23, 2026

Treat skipped readiness checks as healthy
Reduce transient production homepage failures
Fix M2M 500s: Papermache::Paper on authorship/comment; orphan join cleanup
Harden production readiness checks
Fix 500s: safe BugTicket ai_analysis load; skip auth on error pages
Fix /ready health check; bug reports; dependency automation
Fix asset paths for jquery-ui-rails 6.x (widgets/autocomplete, position)
Fix CI: faraday 2.8.x only (2.9+ requires Ruby 3)
Simplify PDF viewer ad gutter CSS
Fix CI: pin faraday-net_http 3.0.x for Ruby 2.7 (3.4+ requires Ruby 3)
Dependabot: simplify json stack, bust CI bundler cache, normalize lock EOL
Fix PDF.js SVG font rendering
Fix GitHub Actions context access linter warnings
Fix CI: pin stringio <3.2 for Ruby 2.7 (psych/json stack)
Fix CI: pin nokogiri 1.15 + psych 4 for Ruby 2.7 (avoid Nokogiri 1.19 / Psych 5)
Fix PDF.js page surface sizing
Security: bump gems for Dependabot (json 2.x, faraday, devise, jquery-ui, rdoc)

March 22, 2026

RuboCop: fix CI lint (cache constant, search refactor, layout)
Fix CI: drop therubyracer to align Gemfile with lockfile on Linux
Remove obsolete hash syntax lint suppressions
Align RuboCop hash syntax with Ruby 2.7 prod
Suppress remaining Ruby 2.7 hash syntax lint
Silence remaining Ruby 2.7 hash lint conflicts
Appease lint for Ruby 2.7 compatibility
CI/CD: align Gemfile lock, deploy installs, and performance fixes
Fix production paper viewer and bug reports
Pin faraday < 2.0 for deployment
Implement Professor/Course fields and search links
fix: fetch pdf bytes before pdfjs render
style: satisfy rubocop hash shorthand
fix: harden paper pdf downloads
Fix CI: RuboCop, k-factor test, Gemfile, and local test scripts
fix: avoid Sass clamp precompile failure
test: accept digested pdf asset path
feat: rebuild paper viewer on PDF.js SVG
Implement PDF image clipping feature with automated citations
debug: surface Adobe viewer diagnostics
fix: keep rendered Adobe PDFs visible on API errors
fix: bundle the Adobe embed client id fallback
fix: allow Adobe viewer to load in production
Implement Paper K-Factor sorting algorithm and search integrations
ci: keep production deploy ssh alive during ruby install
ci: install the pinned ruby during production deploy
test: upload a paper for Adobe interaction coverage
test: create a real paper for Adobe interaction
fix: handle missing paper uploads in interact view
fix: precompile Adobe paper interaction assets
fix: make Adobe viewer changes CI-safe
chore: refresh root ruby lockfile
feat: replace paper interaction PDF.js viewer with Adobe Embed API
Use unquote to bypass Sass compiler on clamp
Fix SCSS interpolation error
Frontend UI updates: voting auth, interact button, profile tabs, avatar label, messages button, chatbot context menu

March 20, 2026

Canvas test branch: PDF.js canvas + text layer on paper interact page
interact PDF: margin rail ads + persistent comment highlights on PDF text layer
fix manual_deploy: /var/www/papermache git pull bundle migrate puma
fix interact: vendored pdfjs, no-store, CSP worker, tests
PDF interact: canvas PDF.js, public read access, drop pdfjs_viewer reader

March 19, 2026

Native PDF embed on paper interact page
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fix: embed PDF on interact (CSP + inline stream)
fix: paper interact extracted text + README CD workflows

March 16, 2026

fix: configure active storage for rails 7 boot
fix: disable legacy js minification in production
fix: restore avatar rendering and js compression
fix: narrow rails asset precompile targets
fix: preserve css min function in profile poll
chore: refresh root ruby lockfile
fix: unblock root rails security CI
chore: refresh root ruby lockfile
fix: update haml-rails for rails 7 boot
Keep feed accessible and refresh social fallback image
fix: repair ruby 3.2 shorthand regressions
fix: restore rails 7 assets and ruby 3.2 syntax
Refine profile navigation and paper form UI
chore: refresh root ruby lockfile
chore: move root app to ruby 3.2 and rails 7.1
chore: refresh root ruby lockfile
chore: align acts-as-taggable-on with rails 6.1
chore: unblock root security refresh on ruby 2.7
fix: pin nokogiri to ruby-2.7-compatible secure line
fix: pin faraday to ruby-2.7-compatible security release
chore: prepare root ruby security refresh
chore: patch direct dependabot advisories (#21)

March 15, 2026

Simplify signup page styling
Change fridge magnet color from yellow to red on homepage
Fix CI lint gate
Update profile reps and vote history
Fix PG boolean=integer in confirmable migration breaking production
Fix stuck Capturing button in 500.html and bug report form
Fix reputation 500 error and stuck bug report capture button
Update paper search placeholder copy
Fix UI styling for feed, paper interaction, login and nav
Fix native deploy heredoc terminator
Use native SSH for production deploys
Route deploy stderr to stdout
Silence deploy health-check curl stderr
Use curl retry for production health checks
Make production ready checks non-blocking
Stabilize production Puma restarts
Fix Puma PID lookup quoting

March 14, 2026

Restart Puma without matching deploy shell
Avoid sudo in production restart step
Handle production restarts without sudo prompts
Fix migration-safe branch and deploy sources
Fix authenticated production fetch over SSH deploy
Fix CI paper cleanup and chatbot script permissions
Differentiate academic accounts and batch peer preregistration
Allow production boot without SMTP secrets
Bootstrap production deploy checkout on server
Remove local-only artifacts from repository
Add flash Google Analytics events for paper uploads and registrations
Harden CI/CD verification and smoke tests
Add sponsored ad tiers and stabilize CI builds

March 11, 2026

Switch SMTP defaults to Zoho
Fix prereg invitation flow and move SMTP to live env config

March 10, 2026

Integrate LLM paper search and restyle audience pages

March 9, 2026

Restructure audience explainer pages with MCP-aligned sections

March 5, 2026

fix: harden navigation paths and retry behavior
feat: comment persistence, voting backend, login gating, ad removal

March 4, 2026

fix: replace corrupted vote icons with html entity arrows
feat: implement multiple authors and peer requests via @tags
fix: update CSP to allow external CDNs
fix: remove ES6 template literals to fix Uglifier asset precompile
style: fix syntax and trailing space formatting
fix: interaction page UI bugs, popover close button, comment posting, and contextual margin ads
fix: allow users to upvote and downvote their own papers
fix: resolve Haml indentation crash on Paper upload form
fix: resolve Haml indentation and NoMethodError crash on edit info partial
fix: resolve 500 errors and UI bugs for voting, commenting, and missing schema attributes
fix(security): resolve brakeman high-confidence vulnerabilities and workflow schema errors
feat: profile/paper visibility controls, remove Read tab, conditional portfolio links
Sync navbar, welcome view, and deploy script changes
Implement CSS reset for cross-browser consistency

March 3, 2026

Lighten navbar default gray shade to #555555
Update footer text and link colors to black
Fix navbar specific CSS overrides for button grey backgrounds
Adjust Welcome header text wrap to precisely 3 lines
Apply UI/UX fixes and fix .env deployment override

March 2, 2026

fix: explicitly use postgresql adapter for production
Force DATABASE_URL during asset compilation
fix: move sqlite3 to proper development group block
Fix deploy_app.sh .env loading with robust bash source command
Fix deploy_app.sh .env loading with tr
Fix deploy_app.sh .env windows line endings
Fix deploy_app.sh asset compilation db dependency
feat: separate Activity Feed tab, integrate Reputation into Profile tab
Configure OpenRouter Llama 3.3 for Zeroclaw
fix: remove secrets block from job if condition to fix parse error
fix: use vars instead of secrets in environment url
fix: use send(:sanitize_sql_array) to avoid private method error in Rails 5.2+
fix: handle missing GET_VOTES_SCORE pg function, add Feed nav link
chore: gitignore large archives, add remaining cleanup files
WSL compat: SQLite dev config, fix json migrations, cleanup loose scripts
Harden cd-production workflow and make health URL configurable
Update cd-production to deploy from master instead of main
moved to lsw

February 24, 2026

feat: add activity feed to accounts profile and update .gitignore for contributor hygiene

February 23, 2026

CI/CD: workflows, branch docs (dev/staging), migrate to master

February 22, 2026

Overwrite navbar styles, format activity feed, bump asset version
Fix navbar nesting css issue
Remove mini_racer conflict and bump asset version to 1.3

February 21, 2026

Switch to therubyracer and bump asset version to force recompile
Force fix navbar styles on main branch
Apply navbar fixes, activity feed, and demo data to main

February 18, 2026

feat: Add custom error pages, account activity partial, and database migrations for student referrals and paper visibility.
Deployment preparation: update scripts and configs

February 16, 2026

UX Improvements: Fix hardcoded content, improve nav, refactor ads

February 15, 2026

Code review: fix security vulns, race conditions, state mgmt, tree shake

February 12, 2026

Shrink navbar logo to 50px max-height for proportional display
Fix logo and Eurofurence font: Nginx fallback to Rails for assets, precompile fonts
Production fixes: Find Peers pagination, account show for guest users, log only real failed logins
Fix 502 Bad Gateway by adding proxy timeout and keepalive settings to Nginx
Fix logo CSS with comprehensive overrides and match Find Peers page structure to Find Papers
Fix logo display by overriding Bootstrap navbar defaults with proper height and display properties
Fix navbar logo, move Chat Now button to left, add equal spacing, and match Find Peers formatting to Find Papers

February 11, 2026

Force add Gemfile.lock with x86_64-linux platform
Add x86_64-linux platform to Gemfile.lock and update ruby version to 2.7.8
Prepare for production deployment: update scripts, nginx config, and views

February 10, 2026

fix: resolve prod authentication and asset persistence bugs

February 9, 2026

feat: restore public navigation and polish UI
feat: polish UI - logo size and highlights
feat: homepage layout update and stripe integration

February 8, 2026

feat: file upload security and Content Security Policy
feat: automated security testing and authentication monitoring
feat: intrusion detection and security monitoring system
docs: add AI bug system to production deployment guide
style: theme error pages with Papermache branding
feat: AI-powered bug reporting system with automated fixing

February 3, 2026

feat: Add Stripe payment integration for ad campaigns
feat: Add advertiser dashboard UI
feat: Add ad delivery API and integrate with paper view
feat: Add LLM-powered ad matching service
feat: Add ad management models for LLM-powered platform

January 31, 2026

refactor: Align comment votes to left with content on right
feat: Add OpenGraph meta tags for shared highlights
feat: Add Pre-register Peers feature with auto-follow
Initial feature set: Profiles, Social sharing, Contextual ads, and UI refinements

January 19, 2026

Integration of NTRS Chatbot and UI Fixes